2013-2014 Course Register

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by  David C. Scheller

2013 - 2014

COURSE REGISTER

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ABBREVIATIONS
c.u. course units AN Annenberg School of Communications
h. hours per week ED Graduate School of Education
s.c. semester credit FA School of Design
L lecture AS School of Arts and Sciences
L/R lecture/recitation (registration in both required) EG School of Engineering and Applied Science
L/L lecture/lab (registration in both required) LW School of Law
SM seminar MD School of Medicine
GH honors sections may be offered NU School of Nursing
SW School of Social Policy & Practice
WH Wharton School of Business & Management

COURSE NUMBER
Unless otherwise stipulated, all courses are 3 hours per week for 1 course unit.
001-399 Undergraduate Courses
400-499 Mixed Courses primarily for undergraduate students
Mixed Courses primarily for graduate students
500-599
(Permission of the instructor is normally required by undergraduates in 500-series courses)
600-999 Courses open only to graduate students

COURSE TERM CODE LETTERS
Letters symbolizing the term or terms in which courses are given appear in parentheses on the line with the course number.
(G) Two terms. Student must enter first term. Credit is given
(A) Course offered in fall term only.
for first term without the second term.
(B) Course offered in spring term only. (H) Course offered fall even-numbered years.
(C) One-term course offered either term. (I) Course offered fall odd-numbered years.
Two terms. Student may enter either term.
(D) (J) Course offered spring even-numbered years.
Credit is given for either term.
Two terms. Student must enter first term. Credit is given
(E) (K) Course offered spring odd-numbered years.
only on the completion of both terms.
Two terms. Student may enter either term. Credit is given
(F) (L) Course offered in summer term only.
only on the completion of both terms.
Two terms. Student must enter first term. Credit is given
(G) (M) Course not offered every year.
for first term without the second term.
ACCOUNTING
earnings management, and basic financial managing earnings and/or balance sheets.
ACCOUNTING statement analysis of cash flows. It draws heavily on real business problems
and uses cases to illustrate the application
(WH) {ACCT}
203. (ACCT703) Cost Accounting. (B) of the techniques and tools.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 101,102, STAT
L/R 101. Principles of Accounting I. 101,102 & ECON 001. 243. (ACCT743) Accounting for
(C) Deals with the application of statistical Mergers, Acquisitions, and Complex
This course is an introduction to the basic tools and decision models to accounting Financial Structures. (A)
concepts and standards underlying financial data for the purpose of facilitating Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: ACCT 101,
accounting systems. Several important managerial control. 102, 201, 202.
concepts will be studied in detail, The objective of this course is to discuss
including: revenue recognition, inventory, 205. (ACCT705) Tax Planning and and understand the accounting that
long-lived assets, present value, and long Administration. (C) Prerequisite(s): underlies merger, acquisition, and
term liabilities. The course emphasizes the ACCT 101,102. investment activities among firms that
construction of the basic financial Presents an overview of the Federal tax result in complex financial structures. Key
accounting statements - the income raising system and its impact on the topics include the purchase accounting
statement, balance sheet, and cash flow planning and conduct of business method for acquisitions, the equity method
statement - as well as their interpretation. operations. Draws on the disciplines of for investments, the preparation and
business finance, public finance, and interpretation of consolidated financial
L/R 102. Managerial Accounting. (C) accounting as they relate to taxation. statements, tax implications of mergers and
The first part of the course presents acquisitions, earnings-per-share
alternative methods of preparing 208. (ACCT718) Auditing. (C) considerations, the accounting implications
managerial accounting information, and the Prerequisite(s): ACCT 201, 202 or of intercompany transactions and non-
remainder of the course examines how equivalent. domestic investments, etc.
these methods are used by companies. This course includes a consideration of the
297. (ACCT897) Taxes and Business
Managerial accounting is a company's historical role of the auditor and the
Strategy. (C) Prerequisite(s): ACCT 101
internal language, and is used for decision- changing role in today's environment, the
and FNCE 101.
making, production management, product organization of the accounting profession,
design and pricing and for motivating and and the new influences of the Public The objective of this course is to develop a
evaluating employees. Unless you Company Accounting Oversight Board. It framework for understanding how taxes
understand managerial accounting, you introduces the students to generally affect business decisions. The key themes
cannot have a thorough understanding of a accepted auditing standards, professional of the framework - all parties, all taxes and
company's internal operations. What you ethics, and legal liability. A conceptual all costs - are applied to decision contexts
learn in this course will help you theory of auditing is discussed and practical such as investments, compensation,
understand the operations of your future examples of auditing techniques and work organizational form, and mergers and
employer (and enable you to be more programs are used to illustrate the acquisitions. The ultimate goal is to provide
successful at your job), and help you application of the theory. The course also a new approach to thinking about taxes that
understand other companies you encounter covers the auditor's reporting standards and will be valuable even as laws and
in your role as competitor, consultant, or uses case studies and professional journal governments change.
investor. articles as bases for discussion and
analysis. 399. Supervised Study. (C)
201. Financial Accounting I. (A) Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and 3.4
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 101,102. 242. Financial Statements: Analysis average in major related subjects.
This course revisits topics covered in & Reporting Incentives. (C) Intensive reading and study with some
Introductory Financial Accounting Prerequisite(s): ACCT 101. research under the direction of a faculty
(Accounting 101), with a focus on the asset In the course, students learn how to analyze member. Approval from one of the
side of the balance sheet: Cash, accounts firms' financial statements and disclosures departmental advisers must be obtained
and notes receivable, inventory, marketable to determine how a firm's particular before registration.
securities, equity investments, PPE, and accounting choices reflect the underlying
intangibles. The course also covers economics of the firm. As a result, the SM 910. Accounting Theory
revenue and expense recognition issues, course strengthens students' ability to use Research I. (A)
and generally accepted accounting financial statements as part of an overall 910/911 Accounting Theory sequence. The
principles that affect the format and assessment of the firm's strategy and course includes an introduction to various
presentation of the financial statements. valuation. The course is especially useful analytical models and
for anyone interested in working on the buy modeling/mathematical techniques that are
202. Financial Accounting II. (B) or sell side. commonly used in accounting research as
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 101,102. The course provides both a framework well as related empirical applications.
Covers liabilities and equities, especially for and the tools necessary to analyze
long-term debt, convertible securities, financial statements. At the conceptual SM 911. Accounting Theory II. (A)
equity issuance, dividends, share level, it emphasizes that preparers and users Accounting 910/911 sequence. Course
repurchases, employee stock options, of financial statements have different includes an introduction to various
pensions, leases, deferred tax, and objectives and incentives. At the same time, analytical models and
derivative securities. Related topics the course is applied and stresses the use of modeling/mathematical techniques that are
covered include computation of diluted actual financial statements. For example, commonly used in accounting research as
earnings per share, disclosure issues, students learn how to detect when firms are well as related empirical applications.
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SM 920. Fundamental Empirical SM 921. Empirical Research SM 922. Empirical Research
Accounting Research. (B) Application I. (B) Application II. (B)
A fundamentals course that covers Empirical topics course on areas such as Empirical topics course on areas such as
empirical research design and provides research on the time-series and cross- corporate governance, executive
students with a perspective on historically sectional properties of financial accounting compensation, debt contracting, accounting
important accounting research. measures, capital markets behavior, regulation, tax, and management
financial intermediaries, and international accounting.
accounting research.

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provide an understanding of how ancient 147. (HIST147, NELC187) Holy Wars
AFRICAN STUDIES
Egypt emerged as one of the most & Jihads. (C)
(AS) {AFST} successful and long-lived civilizations in
world history. 168. (GSWS168, NELC168) Women in
Ancient Egypt. (M) Houser, Wegner.
598. (AFST494) AFR LANG TUTOR:
071. (AFRC071, ENGL071)
ADV I. This class will examine the many roles
Literatures of Africa and the African
played by women in ancient Egypt. From
Diaspora. (M) Staff.
goddesses and queens, to wives and
Undergraduate Courses
This course will serve as an introduction to mothers, women were a visible presence in
a particularly rich arena of literature in ancient Egypt. We will study the lives of
SM 016. (AFRC016, MUSC016)
English. It will also help students to begin famous ancient Egyptian women such as
Freshman Seminar. (M)
to understand many of the racial subtexts Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra. More
In this seminar you will learn the history underlying the culture wars in America, independent than many of their
and culture of gospel music as an African where too often in the full glare of cameras, contemporaries in neighboring areas,
American and contemporary African an anguished voice informs the audience Egyptian women enjoyed greater freedoms
musical form. You will come to know that "as an African, I cannot expect justice in matters of economy and law. By
gospel music as a written, recorded, and in this America." One of the things at work examining the evidence left to us in the
living musical tradition, thorugh close here is the assumption of a common Africa literature (including literary texts and non-
listening, reading and writing about, the diasporic identity -- understood as an literary texts such as legal documents,
music; and you will participate in a class excluded, marginalized subtext of identity administrative texts and letters), the art, and
research project with Philadelphia based in the new world. But why is Africa being the archaeological record, we will come
gospel musicians. This is an academically involed here? What does "Africa" mean in away with a better understanding of the
based community service seminar. this new world context? What is the larger position of women in this ancient culture.
global context of these assumptions about
SM 018. (ANTH018) Popular Culture "Africa" and what is its history? Does the 190. (AFRC190, ANTH190, HIST190)
in Africa. (C) Barnes. Freshman Seminar. term "Africa" itself have a history? What is Introduction to Africa. (A) Society
This course concentrates on popular culture "African literature?" This course, therefore, Sector. All classes. Hasty.
in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the way will also help students not only to ask During the semester we will focus on
people reflect on and represent various fundamental questions about identity but people and communities of sub-Saharan
aspects and issues in their daily lives, in also to understand identity as a moving and Africa and on the ways people represent,
public media, and through a diverse range dynamic construct. How, for example, reflect on, and react to various aspects and
of performative and creative outlets. It does "Africa" travel to South America, to issues in their lives and the institutions
explores the way cultural traditions are the Caribbean Archipelago, and to Europe? which dominate their communities. We
created, promulgated, and perpetuated. It See the English Department's website will focus particularly on the history,
looks at the way popular culture deals with at www.english.upenn.edu for a description contemporary expression, and inter-
pleasure and pain; identitity, difference, of the current offerings. relationships among politics, religion, and
and diversity; wealth and power; modernity aesthetic practice. Members of Penn's
and history; gender relations; suppression, L/R 075. (AFRC075, HIST075) Africa African Studies community will share their
resistance, and violence; and local versus Before 1800. (B) History & Tradition expertise with the class and introduce the
global processes. In short, popular culture Sector. All classes. Babou, Cassanelli. University's Africa resources. Texts consist
will serve as a window through which to Survey of major themes and issues in of weekly readings, films, and recordings;
observe contemporary life. African history before 1800. Topics and class members will be expected to
include: early civilizations, African attend several lectures outside of class.
050. (AFRC050, ANTH022, FOLK022,
kingdoms and empires, population
MUSC050) World Musics and movements, the spread of Islam, the slave 210. (AFRC210, HIST250, RELS210)
Cultures. (C) Arts & Letters Sector. All trade era. Also, emphasis on how African Religions. (M) Ofosu-Donkoh.
Classes. Muller.
historians use archaeology, linguistics, and Religion permeates all aspects of African
Draws on repertories of various societies oral traditions to reconstruct Africa's early life and thought. There is no dichotomy
from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the history. between religion and society in Africa. In
Americas to examine relations between this course, we will survey some of the
aesthetic productions and social processes. L/R 076. (AFRC076, HIST076) Africa indigenous religions of Africa and examine
We investigate musical sounds, cultural Since 1800. (A) History & Tradition their nature and their philosophical
logics informing those sounds, and social Sector. All classes. Cassanelli. foundations. We will examine African
strategies of performance. Topics may Survey of major themes, events, and systems of beliefs, myths, symbols, and
include indigenous music theories, music personalities in African history from the rituals, as developed by African societies to
and social organization, symbolic early nineteenth century through the 1960s. express their distinctive worldviews. We
expressions and musical meaning, gender, Topics include abolition of the slave trade, will also raise some questions about the
religion, and social change. European imperialism, impact of colonial interrelationship of religion and culture as
rule, African resistance, religious and well as religion and social change in Africa,
062. (NELC062) Land of the
cultural movements, rise of naturalism and and the challenges of modern technologies
Pharaohs. (M) History & Tradition
pan-Africanism, issues of ethnicity and to African beliefs. We will examine the
Sector. All classes. Silverman, Wegner.
"tribalism" in modern Africa. future of African religions and analyze the
This course provides an introduction to the extent to which African peoples can hold
society, culture and history of ancient SM 107. Freshman Seminar: World on to their beliefs in this age of rapid
Egypt. The objective of the course is to after 1800. (C) Babou. technological and scientific development.
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Emphasis will be on themes rather than on language-related issues typical of African SM 230. (AFRC230, SOCI230) Law in
individual national or tribal religions. Case conditions. We will cover topics related to Africa. (C) Fetni.
studies, however, will be limited to West formal linguistics (phonology/phonetics,
This course will deal with law and society
Africa among the Akan of Ghana, the morphology, syntax, and semantics), in Africa. After surveying the various legal
Yoruba of Nigeria, and the Mende of Sierra aspects of pragmatics as well as the general systems in Africa, the focus will be on how
Leone. Questions are provided (a) to guide socio-linguistic character of African
and to what extent the countries of Africa
and direct reading (b) to form the basis for countries. We will also cover language in
"re-Africanized" their legal systems by
discussions (c) as exercises and (d) for context, language and culture, borrowing, reconciling their indigenous law with
examinations. multilingualism, and cross-cultural western law and other legal traditions to
communication in Africa.
create unified legal systems that are used as
213. (FOLK203) Introduction to Afro-
instruments of social change and
American Folklore. (C) Staff. SM 227. (AFST503, ANTH227,
development. Toward this end, the
An overview of the major forms of ANTH504) Media in Africa. (B) experiences of various African countries
expressive culture developed by Afro- This course examines the recent explosion covering the various legal traditions will be
Americans. The course focuses on the of media culture in Africa, including radio, included. Specific focus will be on laws
continuous development of black cultural TV, film, internet, newspapers, and covering both economic and social
expression from slavery to the present, magazines. We look at the media forms relations. This emphasis includes laws of
emphasizing the socio-historical context in themselves, studying the elements of contracts and civil wrongs, land law, law of
which they are to be understood and African culture that shape the succession, marriage and divorce and
interpreted. language,themes, and imagery of African Africa's laws of International Relations,
media. We also study the producers of the among other laws. Throughout this course
SM 214. (AFRC214, ANTH214) media: the African journalists, film a comparative analysis with non-African
Societies and Cultures of Africa. (M) directors, disc jockeys, actors, and countries will be stressed.
Kopytoff. entertainers who construct the African
An Introduction to the peoples and cultures public sphere through talent and ingenuity, SM 231. (AFRC231, CINE210,
of Sub-Saharan Africa, including culture drawing on cultural knowledge and social FREN231) Francophone African
history, languages, traditional social and relationships. Finally, we'll turn to African Cinema. (M) Moudileno.
political structures, and traditional religion. audiences, learning how Africans actively This course will introduce students to
engage with media forms, using media to recent films by major directors from
221. (GSWS222) African Women's participate in national conversations on Francophone Africa. While attention will
Lives: Past and Present. (M) Blakely. such topics as gender, environmentalism, be given to aesthetic aspects and individual
corruption, and development. Throughout
Restoring women to African history is a creativity, the viewing and discussions will
worthy goal, but easier said than done.The the course, we study how African media be mostly organized arounda variety of
course examines scholarship over the past give expression to ethnic, political, and (overlapping) themes: History;
religious identities, playing a crucial role in
forty years that brings to light previously Tradition/modernity; Urban Life; Gender
the construction and interaction of
overlooked contributions African women and sexuality; Politics. Class conducted in
communities within the larger context of
have made to political struggle, religious French.
nation-states.
change, culture preservation, and economic
development from pre-colonial times to SM 232. (CINE233, HIST232) Topics
228. (COML224) African Epic:
present. The course addresses basic in World History. (C) Staff.
Performance & Power. Blakely.
questions about changing women's roles
and human rights controversies associated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey from ancient SM 233. (FOLK233) African Folklore,
with African women within the wider Greece and Song of Roland from medieval Popular Culture, and the Diaspora.
cultural and historical contexts in which France are familiar landmarks in world (M) Blakely.
their lives are lived. It also raises literature. In contrast, Sunjata Epic of This course explores African expressive
fundamental questions about sources, Mali, Mwindo Epic of Congo and more culture in both West and Central Africa and
methodology, and representation, including than twenty-five other heroic narrative the Americas, considering continuities in
the value of African women's oral and poems throughout Africa are less known visual and verbal art, religion, and ritual,
written narrative and cinema production as but equally valuable for accessing ancient and material culture from Africa to the
avenues to insider perspectives on African wisdom, exploits of heroes and heroines, New World. The topic is interdisciplinary,
women's lives. cultural values, knowledge systems, and drawing on research by folklorists, cultural
supernatural realms. An additional benefit anthroplogists, archaeologists, and art
225. (AFRC225) African Languages of studying African epic is that they are historians. This study informs our
and Culture. (C) Mbeje. performed today or in living memory, so understanding of both particular historical
The aim of the course is to provide a the cultural, performative, and social connections related to specific peoples and
general perspective on African languages contexts are not obscured by centuries. genres and fundamental aesthetic values
and African linguistics. No background in These living traditions give us that have shaped and continue to influence
linguistics is necessary. Students will be opportunities to more fully understand the entire Afro-Atlantic region.
bards' roles, interaction of bard and
introduced to theoretical linguistics-its
concepts, theories, ways of argumentation, audience, transformation from oral to 235. Africans Abroad: Emigrants,
written representation, and the extension of Refugees, and Citizens in the New
data collection, data analysis, and data
interpretation. The focus will be on the epic themes into other aspects of social life. African Diaspora. (M) Cassanelli.
languages and linguistics of Africa to This seminar will examine the experiences
provide you with the knowledge and skills of recent emigrants and refugees from
required to handle the language and Africa, including many now living in the
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city of Philadelphia and the surrounding Africa. It will also illuminate issues SM 301. (AFRC301) Africa and the
region. In addition to reading some of the affecting women in all facets of life African Diaspora. (M) Nwadiora.
historical and comparative literature on including rape and forced pregnancy during
This course will take the form of an
migration, ethnic diasporas, and war time and expanding definitions of introductory seminar designed to provide
transnationalism, students will have the torture, freedom of expression, violence, undergraduate students an overview of
opportunity to conduct research on specific internal displacement and refugees as stated
significant themes and issues focusing on
African communities in Philadelphia or in the Universal Declaration of Human
the historical, political and cultural
elsewhere in North America, Europe, or the Rights. Class assignments will be designed relationships between Africans and their
Middle East. African emigres' relations to craft a vision and application of human descendants abroad. It will encompass: a
with both their home and host societies will rights that are truly relevant to women and
review of different historical periods and
be explored and compared with the men alike.
geographical locations, from Ancient Egypt
experience of other immigrant groups over to modern American, Caribbean and
the past century. Topics include reasons SM 272. (AFRC276, COML273, African states; a critical evaluation of social
for leaving Africa, patterns of economic ENGL271) Topics: Africa and African movements and theories that have
and educational adaptation abroad, changes Diaspora. (M)
developed in the nineteenth and twentieth
in gender and generational roles, issues of centuries among scholars of different
cultural and political identity, and the 292. (AFRC260, RELS211) African origins in their attempt to reconstruct
impact of national immigration policies. Religous Culture in Nigeria and in Africa as a center and the Diaspora as a
the African Diaspora. (M) Staff.
specific cultural space; and, an exploration
253. (AFRC253, FOLK253, GSWS253, This survey course focuses on African of representations of Africa and the
MUSC253) Music and Performance Religous culture in Nigeria and in the Diaspora in canonical literary works and
of Africa. (M) Muller. Prerequisite(s): African Diaspora. Students will be other forms of fiction like the visual arts.
Completion of MUSC 050 is introduced to the ritual and philosophical
recommended. foundations of Yoruba religion and culture. 323. (AFST523, HSOC356)
This class provides an overview of the most This course emphasizes the incorporative Discourses on HIV/AIDS in Africa.
popular musical styles, and discussion of nature and heterogeneity of problematize (C) Staff.
the cultural and political contexts in which essentialisms and stereotypes about these
This course focuses on the cultural and
they emerged in contemporary Africa. We religious systems by paying close attention social dimensions of HIV/AIDS and its
will cover sub-Saharan and North Africa to the ethnographic details, historical impact on African communities, that is,
with a strong focus on southern Africa. contexts, philosophical underpinnings, and both the infected and the affected. It
Learning to perform a limited range of political developments of each religion in
considers the different means these
African music/dance will be a part of this their region. Traditions we will be communities are using to combat the
course. No prior performance experience exploring are: Ifa Divination in Nigeria and scourge despite certain cultural beliefs and
required,though completion of Music 050 is Benin; Santeria and Regla de Ocha in Cuba practices which sometimes hinder diagnosis
recommended. and the United States; Vodoun in Haiti;
and treatment. In addition to exploring
Shango in Trinidad; Candomble and
how Africans characterize the disease in
257. (AFRC257, PSCI210) Umbanda in Brazil; and the American
their own languages, we will examine the
Contemporary African Politics. (C) Yoruba Movement in the United States.
role of the mass media, folk media, short
Staff. Course readings will provide a theoretical
stories, songs, popular theatre, etc. in
A survey of politics in Africa focusing on and informative basis for dealing with the educating people about HIV/AIDS
the complex relationships between state, concepts of syncretism, creolization, and reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses
society, the economy, and external actors. ethnicity. of various strategies as reflected in the
It will cover colonial rule, the success rates in some countries but not
SM 296. Sustainable Development in
independence struggle, authoritarian and others.
Ghana. (A) Cassanelli. Prerequisite(s):
democratic statecraft, international debt,
Participation in the International
economic development, military rule, SM 354. (ARTH354) African Art &
Development Summer Institute (IDSI).
ethnicity, and class. Culture. (A) Blakely.
This course is mandatory for students
African art is a rich and varied field of
268. (GSWS268) Women and Human participating in the International
study encompassing visual arts and
Rights in Africa. (A) Staff. Development Summer Institute (IDSI).
architecture of ancient cultures, regional
Is violence against women a violation of IDSI is a service learning and training artistic traditions of diverse peoples in more
human rights regardless of whether this program for undergraduates that provides recent precolonial and colonial times, and
occurs in the private or public spheres? students with the opportunity to have an contemporary artists, both self-taught and
Should rape and sexual violence against applied learning and cultural experience in formally trained. The principal goals of
women and girls in situations of armed Ghana. The program consists of 5 weeks this course are to help students to
conflict be considered as war crimes? As of pre-program preparation at Penn and a 4- appreciate the scope of this field while also
gender issues have become central to the week long training program on the campus gaining in-depth understanding of
development dialogue, the linkages of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science particular African artistic traditions, artists,
between human rights, gender and and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, and artworks within specific historical and
development have become increasingly Ghana. More Info: cultural contexts. Topics to be considered
apparent and especially relevant for the http://www.seas.upenn.edu/undergraduate/s include persistent misconceptions about
African continent. A primary goal of the ervice-learn/idsi/index.php African art; indigenous African aesthetics;
course will be to reveal the gendered nature semiotics of African visual signs and sign
of human rights issues and the current systems; roles of "traditional artists" in
application of human rights concepts in African societies; gender issues in art
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production, representation, and in gender and generational roles, issues of writers in their use of old forms and
performance; historical contacts and cultural and political identity, and the experiments with new.
cultural interaction; spiritual, therapeutic, impact of national immigration policies.
and political uses of art; and interrelations SM 589. (AFRC488, AFST489,
of visual art with verbal and kinesthetic HIST489, URBS489) AFRICANS
Graduate Courses
expression. ABROAD. (M)
SM 511. (HIST511) African Cultural
SM 390. (AFRC391, FREN390) Survey SM 593. (AFRC593, FREN593)
History. (C) Feierman.
Francophone Lit. (M) Moudileno. Studies-Francophone Literature. (M)
This seminar will investigate the cultural Moudileno.
This class will explore the African city as a
history of Africa, with a special emphasis
site of colonial and postcolonial exchanges Topics will vary. Seminar will focus on
on concepts and methods. Topics include
by way of twentieth-century European and one area, author, or "problematique" in
the history of religion before and during the
African representations. We will examine, Francophone studies. Examples of area-
colonial period, the social context of
on the one hand, the status of the urban focused seminar: The African
knowledge transmitted orally or through
located in Africa in European works from Contemporary novel or Francophone
literate means, the circulation of ideas,
the colonial period (fiction and non-ficiton Caribbean writers. Example of single-
images, and practices, the changing nature
including Gide, Leiris, Londres). On the author seminar: "The Poetry and Drama of
and significance of popular culture and the
other hand, we will study Africans, Aime Cesaire. Examples of thematic
cultural significance of popular social
focusing on the dreams and transformations approach: writing and national identity;
movements. Examples will be drawn from
involved in the passage from the village to postcolonial conditions, autobiography.
the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
the city to the metropole. Essays from
history, sociology, urban studies and 514. (AFRC514, ANTH514) SM 620. (ENVS620) Topics on African
postcolonial theory will supplement the Anthropology of Africa. (M) Kopytoff. Environmental Issues. (B) Staff.
study of the primary texts. All readings, Africa is a land of great contrasts and
African culture history, as inferred from
class discussions and written assignments possesses a rich mix of scenic beauty,
archaeology, linguistic relationships and
in French. impressive biodiversity, many cultures,
ethnology. Culture areas of Africa and
economies and interesting history. Almost
representative societies; common themes
SM 393. (ENGL393) Topics in completely encircled by water and home to
and differences; significance for
Literature & Society: South African a network of some of the world's largest
anthropological concerns.
Literature. (C) Barnard. and longest rivers, Africa is also home to
two vast and expanding hot deserts. While
523. (AFST323) Discourses on
467. (NELC467) Introduction to
Africa contains enormous amounts of
HIV/AIDS In Africa. (C) Staff.
Egyptian Culture and Archaeology. mineral wealth, it also has fifteen of the
(B) Wegner. This course focuses on the cultural and world's least developed countries. Its
social dimensions of HIV/AIDS and its
Covers principal aspects of ancient climate ranges from the harsh extremes in
impact on African communities, that is,
Egyptian culture (environment, urbanism, hot deserts to the Arctic Current dominated
both the infected and the affected. It
religion, technology, etc.) with special temperate climate of the southern tip of
considers the different means these
focus on archaeological data; includes Africa and the pleasant Mediterranean
communities are using to combat the
study of University Museum artifacts. climate of North Africa.
scourge despite certain cultural beliefs and
Follows AMES 266/466 - History of Egypt Africa's remarkable ecological
practices which sometimes hinder diagnosis
taught in the Fall semester. diversity is unique and is an expression of
and treatment. In addition to exploring
the varied climates in the continent, with
SM 489. (AFRC488, AFST589, how Africans characterize the disease in camels in Egypt, Goliath frogs (the largest
HIST489, URBS489) Africans their own languages, we will examine the frogs in the world) in Cameroon and the
Abroad: Emigrants, Refugees, and role of the mass media, folk media, short African penguins in Namibia and South
Citizens in the New African stories, songs, popular theatre, etc. in Africa. Africa has extensive fertile
Diaspora. (M) Cassanelli. educating people about HIV/AIDS grasslands and lush equatorial forests, yet
reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses
This seminar will examine the experiences many of its people suffer from hunger and
of various strategies as reflected in the
of recent emigrants and refugees from starvation. Despite possessing some of the
success rates in some countries but not
Africa, including many now living in the most scenic and pristine landscapes in the
others.
city of Philadelphia and the surrounding world, poor resource management has
region. In addition to reading some of the resulted in serious environmental problems
SM 572. (AFRC572, COML575,
historical and comparative literature on in various parts of Africa, including air and
ENGL586) Topics in African
migration, ethnic diasporas, and water pollution, deforestation, loss of soil
Literature. (M) Barnard.
transnationalism, students will have the & soil fertility and a dramatic decline in
opportunity to conduct research on specific This course is concerned with the context, biodiversity through out the continent.
African communities in Philadelphia or and an aspect of the content and form, of This course aims to explore Africa's
elsewhere in North America, Europe, or the African Literature. It is based on a natural environment and the impact of
Middle East. African emigres' relations selection of representative text written in human activities on it. Each semester the
with both their home and host societies will English, as well as a few texts in English course will offer an overview of Africa's
be explored and compared with the translation. It involves first, a study of environment as it relates to one of the
experience of other immigrant groups over themes relating to social change and the following two topics 1) Water issues;
the past century. Topics include reasons persistence of cultural traditions, followed 2)Environmental impact of development
for leaving Africa, patterns of economic by an attempt at sketching the emergence projects, natural resource extraction and
and educational adaptation abroad, changes of literary tradition by identifying some of consumption. Each semester, in addition to
the formal conventions established b the
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analyzing one of the above topics, we will dependency; the ecological history of communicative competence to enable the
pick a couple of case studies from within disease; popular associations and the state; students to acquire linguistic and extra-
the US that can be used to show parallels the local bases of nationalism. linguistic skills in Yoruba. The content of
between some of the issues discussed in the the course is selected from various
African case studies. The students will be SM 650. (HIST650) Topics in African everyday life situations to enable the
asked to conduct research on a relevant History. (C) Cassanelli. students to communicate in predictable
topic in any region in Africa for a paper Reading and discussion course on selected common daily settings. Culture, as it
due at the end of the semester. topics in African history relates to language use, is also part of the
course content.
SM 628. (HIST628) Africa in the Wider SM 693. (FREN693) Africa Looks to Students will acquire the speaking,
World: Connections, Contexts, Europe. (M) Moudileno. listening, reading, and writing skills at the
Comparisons. (A) Cassanelli. mid-high novice level, based on the
Topics will vary. Seminar will focus on
This seminar is aimed at students of one area, author, or "problematique" in ACTFL scale. The mid-high novice level
history, culture, literature, and the arts in Francophone studies. Examples of area- proficiency skills that the students will
the Americas, Europe, or Asia, who need to focused seminar: The African acquire constitute threshold capabilibilities
know something about African history and contemporary novel or Francophone of the second semester range of proficiency
culture for their own research or studies. It Caribbean writers. Example of single- to prepare students for Elementary Yoruba
is intended to help students identify, author seminar: The Poetry and Drama of II course materials.
analyze, and incorporate selected Aime Cesaire. Examples of thematic
171. (AFRC171, AFST518)
scholarship on Africa into their particular approach: writing and national identity;
area or disciplinary specializations. Topics postcolonial conditions; autobiography. Elementary Yoruba II. (B) Distribution
covered include slavery and slave societies; Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior
diasporas and migrations, linguistic, SM 701. (AFRC701, ANTH701, only. Awoyale. Prerequisite(s): Completion
religious and cultural transfers and ENVS701, HIST701) Graduate of Elementary Yoruba I, or permission of
survivals; and issues of identity, Seminar in African Studies. (B) Staff. instructor. Offered through Penn Language
assimilation, nationalism, and pan- Center.
Topics vary. Please consult The African
Africanism. we want to ask: how much The main objective of this course is to
Studies Center for details.
African history, culture, language, and further sharpen the Yoruba linquistic
social structure do Americanists or other SM 705. (AFRC705, ANTH705, knowledge that the student acquired in
non-specialists need to know to do sound FOLK715, GSWS705, MUSC705) level I. By the end of the course, the
scholarship? What comparative questions Seminar in Ethnomusicology. (A) student should be able to (1) read, write,
should we be asking about Africa, and how Muller. and understand simple to moderately
can we find and utilize data that is reliable complex sentences in Yoruba; and, (2)
Topics in Ethnomusicogology. Spring
and relevant to our our own work. advance in the knowledge of the Yoruba
2010: Imagining Africa Musically: This
culture.
seminar considers ways in which scholars
SM 630. (HIST630, HSSC630) African
write about and imagine the African
History: Core Issues of Social 180. (AFRC180, AFST580)
continent through the lens of musical
Process. (C) Feierman. Elementary Swahili I. (A) Mshomba.
performance. We will consider a range of
This graduate seminar explores the Offered through Penn Language Center.
writings about Africa as a continent,
literature of African history while trying to The Elementary Swahili I course can be
regionally, and nationally, including north
find ways to understand history which taken to fulfill a language requirement, or
Africa and the Maghreb through series of
happens on unfamiliar social and cultural for linguistic preparation to do research on
themes including: diaspora,
terrain. The terrain is unfamiliar because East Africa/Africa-related topics. The
cosmopolitanism, gender, spirituality, and
the words professional historians use, and course emphasizes communicative
as world music. This is a reading and
the underlying assumptions about social compentence to enable the students to
listening intensive seminar.
process, show the marks of many acquire linguistic and extra-linguistic skills
generations of writing about Europe. The SM 775. (ENGL775) South African in Swahili. The content of the course is
standard histories, then, are torn between Literature. (M) Barnard. selected from various everyday life
describing events in terms of European situations to enable the students to
An advanced seminar in anglophone
social process, in which case they do communicate in predictable common daily
African literature, possibly including a few
violence to the history, or finding a settings. Culture, as it relates to language
works in translation.
historical language which is closer to being use, is also part of the course content.
locally grounded but unfamiliar to a Students will acquire the speaking,
798. (SWRK798) Advanced Topics.
western audience. In this course we study a listening, reading, and writing skills at the
number of core issues of social process. mid-high novice level, based on the
Each one is meant to direct attention to a African Language Courses ACTFL scale. The mid-high level
complex of local social forms, and each is proficiency skills that the students will
170. (AFRC170, AFST517)
at the heart of a major body of writings of acquire constitute threshold capabilities of
Elementary Yoruba I. (A) Awoyale.
African history. A tentative list of topics the second semester range of proficiency to
Offered through Penn Language Center.
includes the following: Oral tradition; prepare students for Elementary Swahili II
knowledge and identity; ecology and The Elementary Yoruba I course can be course materials.
ethnicity; forms of local authority and state taken to fulfill a language requirement, or
power; ritual, conquest, and the for linguistic preparation to do research on
transformation of political authority; Nigeria and the diaspora/Africa-related
political economy; gender and personal topics. The course emphasizes
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181. (AFRC181, AFST581) 245. (AFST545) Intensive Elementary 399. Independent Study: Language.
Elementary Swahili II. (B) Mshomba. Amharic I and II. (M) Hailu. Offered (C) Staff. Offered through Penn Language
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Elementary through Penn Language Center. Center.
Swahili I, or permission of instructor.
Offered through Penn Language Center. 247. (AFRC247, AFRC548, AFST547, 460. (ANEL460) Middle Egyptian. (E)
NELC583) Advanced Amharic. (C) Silverman.
This course continues to introduce basic
grammar, vocabulary, and the reading and Zemichael. Offered through Penn Introduction to the grammar of Middle
writing of Swahili to new speakers. During Language Center. Egyptian.
this term, folktales, other texts, and film An advanced Amharic course that will
selections are used to help introduce further sharpen the students' knowledge of 484. (AFST590) Aspects of Kiswahili
important aspects of Swahili culture and the the Amharic language and the culture of the Language, History, and Culture. (M)
use of the language in wide areas of Africa. Amharas. The learners communicative Mshomba. Prerequisite(s): Completion of
skills will be further developed through Advanced Swahili I & II.
185. (AFRC185, AFST585) listening, speaking, reading and writing. This course taught in Kiswahili will focus
Elementary Swahili: Accelerated. (C) There will also be discussions on cultural on reading/writing skills and
Staff. Offered through the Penn Language and political issues. speaking/listening skills as well as
Center. structural and cultural information. The
249. Amharic Language & Culture.
course will be structured around three
240. (AFRC240, AFRC540, AFST540, (C) Hailu. Prerequisite(s): Completion of thematic units: History, Politics, and
NELC481) Elementary Amharic I. (A) Advanced Amharic I & II. Education. The course will provide
STAFF. Offered through Penn Language resources for the Swahili speaking world:
Center. 270. (AFRC270, AFST529) Who are first language speakers and the
Intermediate Yoruba I. (A) Awoyale.
The Elementary Amharic I course can be varieties they speak? How did Swahili
Offered through Penn Language Center.
taken to fulfill a language requirement, or spread from the coast to other Swahili
for linguistic preparation to do research on speaking areas as far inland as Uganda,
271. (AFRC271, AFST532)
Ethiopia/Africa-related topics. The course Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo. Swahili is a
Intermediate Yoruba II. (B) Awoyale.
emphasizes communicative competence to lingua franca and its importance in the
Offered through Penn Language Center.
enable the students to acquire linguistic and spread of religion and in trade movements.
extra-linguistic skills in Amharic. The Influence of other languages on Swahili
280. (AFRC280, AFST582)
content of the course is selected from and influence of Swahili on local languages
Intermediate Swahili I. (A) Mshomba.
various everyday life situations to enable will be discussed. Political and educational
Offered through Penn Language Center.
the students to communicate in predictable systems will be discussed as well.
common daily settings. Culture, as it 281. (AFRC282, AFST583)
relates to language use, is also part of the Intermediate Swahili II. (B) Mshomba. 486. Yoruba Language & Culture I.
course content. Prerequisite(s): Intermediate Swahili I, or (M) Awoyale. Prerequisite(s): Completion
Students will acquire the speaking, permission of instructor. Offered through of Advanced Yoruba I & II. Offered
listening, reading, and writing skills at the the Penn Language Center. through Penn Language Center.
mid-high novice level, based on the
ACTFL scale. The mid-high novice level 284. (AFRC284, AFST584) Advanced 487. Yoruba Language & Culture II.
proficiency skills that the students will Swahili I. (A) Mshomba. Prerequisite(s): (C) Awoyale. Prerequisite(s): Completion
acquire constitute threshold capabilities of AFST 280, LING 280, AFRC 280 or of Advanced Yoruba I & II.
the second semester range of proficiency to permission of instructor. Offered through
490. (AFST594) African Language
prepare students for Elementary Amharic II Penn Language Center.
Tutorial - Elementary I. (C) Staff.
course materials.
This is an advanced Kiswahili course which Prerequisite(s): Permission of Penn
241. (AFRC241, AFRC541, AFST541, will engage learners in extended spoken Language Center. Offered through Penn
NELC482) Elementary Amharic II. (B) and written discourse. Advanced learners Language Center.
of Kiswahili will listen to, read about, write
Hailu. Prerequisite(s): Completion of The main objective of this course is to
and speak on authentic video materials,
Elementary Amharic I, or permission of the allow students to study an African language
contemporary novels, and newspapers.
instructor. Offered through Penn Language of their choice, depending on the
They will also participate in various
Center. availability of the instructor. The course
discussions on cultural and political issues.
Continuation of Elementary Amharic I. will provide students with linquistics tools
which will facilitate their research work in
285. (AFRC285, AFST586) Advanced
242. (AFRC242, AFRC543, AFST543, Swahili II. (B) Mshomba. Offered through the target country. Cultural aspects of the
NELC483) Intermediate Amharic I. Penn Language Center. speakers of the language will be introduced
(A) Hailu. Offered through Penn Language and reinforced.
Center. 370. (AFST587) Advanced Yoruba I.
491. (AFRC491, AFST595) African
(A) Awoyale. Offered through Penn
243. (AFRC243, AFRC544, AFST544, Language Center. Language Tutorial - Elementary II.
NELC484) Intermediate Amharic II. (C) Staff. Prerequisite(s): Permission of
(B) Hailu. Offered through Penn Language 371. (AFST588) Advanced Yoruba II. Penn Language Center. Offered through
Center. (B) Awoyale. Offered through Penn Penn Language Center.
Language Center. Continuation of AFST 490.
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